{"id":1402,"date":"2024-02-29T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:53:19","slug":"critical-studies-artist-cv-and-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Critical studies: Artist CV and statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\">Artist statement<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\">Beth Hemus, June 2024<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\">I have tried many things over time, but I always return to art. Art is not a luxury for me, it&#8217;s an essential mechanism for exploring my humanity. And I need that. I think we all need that. I would rather be in dialogue than monologue about this, which is why I incorporate paradox and ambiguity in my work; to&nbsp; ask questions and make space for the audiences voice.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\">My personal and professional experiences drove my emotional development, just as they drive my motivation to explore themes creatively; particularly trauma, mending and intimacy.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier\">Research on CV formats:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj-aeyYpyXvqhVuGDiad-139u-TN5jCUHnEjVBlVqhRM2XiL3Cywkge2ImmEjOmJHeBvwMisVHGOfKMQixpxGzovKsyolyzV61_geMUqROa9wSuYXjPGn1IRnpyS9qzlUdUKA-c3-sllG312qSl4upJidJaKN0L4_ml1DkmyuaHCBHtXDl_DcGpPyDW6rTf\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj-aeyYpyXvqhVuGDiad-139u-TN5jCUHnEjVBlVqhRM2XiL3Cywkge2ImmEjOmJHeBvwMisVHGOfKMQixpxGzovKsyolyzV61_geMUqROa9wSuYXjPGn1IRnpyS9qzlUdUKA-c3-sllG312qSl4upJidJaKN0L4_ml1DkmyuaHCBHtXDl_DcGpPyDW6rTf\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiZ61bDoxwNsbegnz6c0-8MHZxVRv8eVJuXmljI7c-KUdFZ43Q5i5pQFPnySyUoy09OYZRJEhhZK_NMscYMF8j9aO4WlHSp-rPz79Mc9kBDEF81SgDQpq9Y4iI9uHI0Mm3xs9xbGmqnNQuL2rWTA3ewMLvGtLon52veRE-Ais0JEu5oSSMPE4RCeIWo9czn\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiZ61bDoxwNsbegnz6c0-8MHZxVRv8eVJuXmljI7c-KUdFZ43Q5i5pQFPnySyUoy09OYZRJEhhZK_NMscYMF8j9aO4WlHSp-rPz79Mc9kBDEF81SgDQpq9Y4iI9uHI0Mm3xs9xbGmqnNQuL2rWTA3ewMLvGtLon52veRE-Ais0JEu5oSSMPE4RCeIWo9czn\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhrooGXV8-VVY1HVBQv_pOaaLwWrKnh_f7GxtYPqyU2K2ydGCYdOVrppQbuqqGgzgnqRShiiO1nJu4vDS6Pw1pZWEVUWw3NYjpgS6bigivgM5ArBt43xRxUw8bvKops7SHUM3e_OSkk5d8_uZbB7H08T4cKNAwylHgAMZxHwWfXbtP0CkZZxR0hkr73HtBQ\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhrooGXV8-VVY1HVBQv_pOaaLwWrKnh_f7GxtYPqyU2K2ydGCYdOVrppQbuqqGgzgnqRShiiO1nJu4vDS6Pw1pZWEVUWw3NYjpgS6bigivgM5ArBt43xRxUw8bvKops7SHUM3e_OSkk5d8_uZbB7H08T4cKNAwylHgAMZxHwWfXbtP0CkZZxR0hkr73HtBQ\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgpoMnByAj_glOSZ2ODiGFT-K6ovENNda5yDyjWms0szNmRQEzm8wkOjGAHv2mqngnKCGhefznr2FxsZuJSI4dZ5tlvGkD5S0Vz9XMMDkLS-MBFtoz8Qw6beWgr0WAkCQbck3HoKbamBzSxu329-K6Mq98irJSqS-7T5JXNctVcqctY95caQz28-F2LCCl6\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgpoMnByAj_glOSZ2ODiGFT-K6ovENNda5yDyjWms0szNmRQEzm8wkOjGAHv2mqngnKCGhefznr2FxsZuJSI4dZ5tlvGkD5S0Vz9XMMDkLS-MBFtoz8Qw6beWgr0WAkCQbck3HoKbamBzSxu329-K6Mq98irJSqS-7T5JXNctVcqctY95caQz28-F2LCCl6\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist statement Beth Hemus, June 2024 I have tried many things over time, but I always return to art. Art is not a luxury for me, it&#8217;s an essential mechanism for exploring my humanity. And I need that. I think we all need that. I would rather be in dialogue than monologue about this, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}